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The Boys of Summer: The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance
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The Boys of Summer: The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, an Compact disc - 2011

by Roger Kahn; Read by Phil Gigante


From the publisher

This is an audiobook about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the color barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is an audiobook by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is an audiobook about America, about fathers and sons, prejudice and courage, triumph and disaster, and told with warmth, humor, wit, candor, and love.

"A work of high purpose and poetic accomplishment. The finest American book on sports." --James Michener

Details

  • Title The Boys of Summer: The Classic Narrative of Growing Up Within Shouting Distance of Ebbets Field, Covering the Jackie Robinson Dodgers, an
  • Author Roger Kahn; Read by Phil Gigante
  • Binding Compact Disc
  • Edition Unabridged
  • Pages 13
  • Volumes 13
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Brilliance Audio
  • Date 2011-04
  • ISBN 9781455815128 / 1455815128
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 5.4 x 6.5 x 1.2 in (13.72 x 16.51 x 3.05 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
  • Library of Congress subjects Audiobooks, Baseball - United States - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357